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April 20, 2015

Menu Monday: One Dish Meals

This week is dance week for our girls. Two of the younger ones are in a local dance ministry performance this week and have practices almost every evening. Our two oldest daughters are helping in one of the classes so they will be gone, too, so this week will be a bit crazy in the menu planning department. I thought I'd share some one dish meals that I shared with a friend a while back in another post. Enjoy...again.

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A while back a dear friend had just had her fourth baby and requested
I share some one dish meals with her. I posted this then and thought
it was appropriate for our family with the arrival of blessing number
eight. I thought you all might be able to use the recommendations as
well. A lot of my meals can be made into one dish meals. I'll list
the link with the name so just click on the name of the dish to take
you to the recipe. I'll also share any ideas that I have to go with
those recipes.

Simple Roast To go along with this you can put some red potatoes and green beans in the crock pot with it.Creamy Chicken and Stuffing Add some raw green beans to the crock pot in with the chicken. Make some of these (Smashed Potatoes) to go along with it. Usethis tip for the potatoes.Cheesy Hashbrown Potatoes Like it says in the post, add chopped up ham or chicken to make it a main dish. Steam some veggies and you have a meal!Easy Cheesy Bean Dip
Stir in some ground beef and serve with Mexican rice, beans, sour
cream and salsa (use some good veggie filled salsa!) and you have a
meal!Chicken Pot Pie
is great all by itself! It takes a bit of work, but if you make a few
at one time, eat one and freeze the rest you are all set for a few
more meals! Easy Peasy Chops This dish is a another one where you can do the smashed potatoes (see above) and steam some veggies and you're all set.Creamy Chicken and Noodle Casserole Add some cooked mixed veggies to this and you have a one meal dish! Serve with some yummy rolls!Chicken Burritoes
You can make a few batches of these, bake them and then freeze the
leftovers for another meal! Serve with rice, beans, salsa and sour
cream.Rigatoni Casserole
This dish has meat, veggies (assuming you use a good sauce), carbs
(*smile*)...the total package! Pop some garlic bread in the oven and
you're all set!Chili Serve with crackers and corn bread!Chicken Tetrazzini Again, like the chicken and noodles...add veggies! Serve with bread!Duggar's Taco SoupEasy Beef and NoodlesServe with rolls!Pioneer Beef Stew Serve with rolls! (Do you see a bread trend here? LOL!)I
hope those help! I'm searching for some more great crock-pot one dish
meals for our family since we have a few more busy days this fall. I
have a Gooseberry Patch cookbook that I'm perusing now!Like these one-dish ideas? Click the "Like" button below to share them with friends on Facebook!